I Know You Love Me, Too

Book excerpt: Winner of the New American Fiction Prize, I KNOW YOU LOVE ME, TOO is a novel-in-stories about sisterhood, grief, and discovering one's true self through the accidents of life. We follow Ingrid and Kate, half-sisters eight years apart, whose shared father dies when Ingrid is twenty and Kate, twelve. As Ingrid struggles with her artistic identity and love life, the hairline cracks in Kate's seemingly perfect life widen. Told from multiple perspectives, I Know You Love Me, Too follows Ingrid and Kate through their lives, loves, and their attempts to understand the mysteries and memories they inherited from their dead father. In one story, Ingrid muses that the relationship between half-sisters should be half as complicated?but it's not.